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Starting a Blog? Read This!

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If you are thinking of joining the growing number of outdoor bloggers you’re in luck!  Read F.A.Q. For the New Outdoor Blogger first, you can thank me later.

Tips, Tricks and Tools of the Trade

Because of some very hard work by some very dedicated people, most notably the charming and talented Outdooress, there is a place to hang out and most importantly learn some tricks of the trade. The Outdoor Blogger Network was created by Rebecca Garlock, the aforementioned Outdooress and Joe Wolf  (Flowing Waters)  as  a web-based portal for people to find the best Outdoor related blogs. OBN is a great place to learn from others, see the extensive range of outdoor bloggers and find join a community of bloggers who share a passion for the outdoors.

Go ahead, start that blog. There are a lot people waiting to cheer you on!

A blog by any other name…

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MAHOGANY RIDGE – The fun folks at the Outdoor Blogger Network posed an interesting challenge. “So lets read about how you came up with your blog name.”

If you look at the list of blogs on the network there are some pretty interesting names for sure.

So here is my story of how Dispatches from the Middle River came to get its name.

A Navy PAO with visions of exotic places

My days as a Naval Reserve officer had something to do with it. My exposure to correspondents gave rise to a fantsy of becoming a ink-stained-wretch filing dispatches from some front line hot-spot. Didn’t happen but that is another story.

But the training and the itch to chronicle my adventures stuck. It sort of evolved (devolved) along a more Hunter S. Thompson path. Think The Rum Diary meets Trout Bum.

Mahogany Ridge becomes Middle River

I saw my dateline as MAHOGANY RIDGE. Where is Mahogany Ridge you ask? It is your favorite new found dive bar or watering hole. I had a notebook of Dispatches from Mahogany Ridge. A chronicle of observation from behind a beer or a whiskey. Never saw the light of day…

When I moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and started writing an outdoor column for the News Virginian (Waynesboro) I realized I had some pretty good blog fodder. Since I lived on the Middle River the evolution was complete.

This has prompted me to now dateline my posts from the road (including this one) with MAHOGANY RIDGE from now on.